GoPro Hero 9 Scuba Diving Guide - GoPro Hero 13 Compatible 🐠 (Gear & Settings) | Stoked For Travel

Taking your GoPro Hero 9 scuba diving?
Well here is everything you'll need - including gear, settings and more!
Gear & Settings also work for GoPro Hero 13, 12 and 11 scuba diving too!

⬇️ Grab your GoPro Hero 13 Here ⬇️

Both the GoPro Hero 9 and GoPro Hero 13 are pretty epic to capture all your diving fun and getting the right gear to take your Hero 9 scuba diving can make a massive difference in the footage you're able to capture.

All the settings and gear in this guide also work for the new GoPro Hero 13, 12 and GoPro Hero 10 & 11 too!

So in this video I'll be running through all the kit I use when taking my GoPro underwater - as well as the video and photo setting I use to capture all my scuba diving adventures.

What we'll cover in this video:

✅ GoPro dive housings
✅ Best GoPro underwater settings
✅ Poles and handles for diving
✅ GoPro dive filters

📷 Gear Mentioned In This Guide 📷

And of course if you have any other questions about taking you GoPro Hero 9 scuba diving add them to the comments and I'll my best to answer them.

⬇️ Check out my full Hero 10 review here ⬇️

Chapters:

0:00 GoPro Hero 9 & Hero 10 Scuba Diving Guide
0:10 Intro
0:50 Hero 9 Underwater Housing (GoPro Supersuit)
2:30 GoPro Dive Filters
4:12 Best GoPro Poles/Handles
6:20 GoPro Underwater Video Settings
9:00 GoPro Underwater Photo Settings
10:18 Useful Links

📷 MY CAMERA GEAR 📷

Editing: Final Cut Pro X

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[michellewilliamson]

This was a huge help for me, I'm brand new to GoPro having just purchased my Hero 9 Black this morning at the airport on the way to Cairns. I'm also new to diving and have just completed my Adv Open Water, so I'm excited to get started with underwater photography. Lots to learn, so keep the info coming. Thanks again.

Dude, thats one of the best tutorials Ive ever watched

[yippeethreeeight]

Thank you so much. I'm going diving for the first time in years next week, and just got the 9 (my 3 froze up finally). This is exactly what I need to make sure I've got my 9 setup correctly.

[dindobiberanueza]

having a go pro is one of the best purchase i've ever made. i've been using it in all our dives

[justinmcglinn]

Could you normalize the volume throughout your video? turn it up for the talking and turn it down for the music, or is this an issue at my end?

[kangarool]

Mate this was so helpful, I’ve searched for exactly this content but yours never came up til now. Best of the lot! Simple, straightforward and covers 99% of what we ‘normal’ people (I.e. non professional) are looking for. Subscribed! Keep it up. BTW I’m diving Gold Coast in a couple months if you have any can’t-miss sites to recommend there. ✌️🤙

[dtoscano]

Thanks for this informative video! You’ve convinced me that this is the camera I want for diving, I will def come back for your tips on the settings

[usr]

You might need a housing for surfing even if its on the surface. Sometimes hard hits against the water can replicate high water pressures from being deeper than 33 feet.

[Mike-fsbv]

That handle looked familiar. I clicked on your link and found I bought one back in 2017, I agree, it is simple and works well. I am adding the filters now and will see how I do in a couple weeks.

[travelingfools]

Great video. Took your advice from here and got some great video from diving in the Keys! Thanks 🍻

[ABCDiver]

Have you found a way to quickly attach it to your BC so it's not in the way, but still easily accessible, without falling out?

[stangoodvibes]

Top Tip: be careful when climbing into the boat with your GoPro. I had a lanyard around my wrist, which caught on the ladder and snapped as I heaved myself up onto the dive boat, sending my new GoPro straight to the bottom. Luckily for me there were some very experienced divers with us (Jimmy who has about 15000 dives and has spent over a year of his life under water) and he was able to dive down with low air and find it in about 20m of water. Phew!
(and before anyone says I should use a floating selfie stick the one that came with the GoPro is telescoping so I can stick my camera right into a shark or morays face without getting my arm bitten off and it doesn't float. Hence the lanyard)
The best practice here is to tuck your GoPro into your dive suit against your chest BEFORE you climb out the water. Live and learn.

[Sharon-whhw]

This is an awesome video you have helped me with all of my questions 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 now I know what to buy and what to do

[lotramirez]

Chris - could you please advise about camera settings for night dive, deep dive and cage diving? And best accessories for these too.

[howiegrapek]

great tips - Upgraded to a 12, but still need a housing as I go deeper. The one issue I have now is when I hit record, I don't know if it is in video or photo mode - even though I "lock" it. It is either on my head or on my chest, so I cannot see the back display - what tricks do you have to know if it is "on" and which mode it is in?

[mommytimi]

Hi great explanation ❤ but how do i set for a nightdive?
And do the settings change with a red filter? Nightdive, no need of filter?
Please help, its my first gopro9 and i am all confused and lost good videos yesterday with the wrong settings and i dont lime working on them so much postdive😊

[alex]

So how do you take pictures or change any settings once in the case?

[LMFAOBruh]

hi, i'm not sure if you will know but is using chesty suitable for diving, i would have the underwater housing on aswell

[rolandotrujillo]

Amazing video! Only part I’m confused on is protune settings for video recording. Cant seem to find where to make these changes on to

[andre]

Thanks so much for this video. What’s your opinion on handheld vs top-mask mounted?